Hi Timo,
alright, thanks I will recompile without gc - this is a standard build option on FreeBSD but I will get the port maintainer to maybe change this.
Best regards Sebastian
Am 24.10.2015 um 23:19 schrieb Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi:
On 24 Oct 2015, at 14:59, Sebastian Wolfgarten sebastian@wolfgarten.com wrote:
Dear all,
I am using Dovecot 2.2.19 and I keep on getting the following warnings in my mail.log file on FreeBSD 10:
Oct 24 10:45:28 server1 dovecot: imap: Error: GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 20480): Oct 24 10:45:28 server1 dovecot: imap: Error: May lead to memory leak and poor performance.
I am wondering whether this is a configuration issue (i.e. a mistake in my current config) or whether I am hitting a bug. What’s the best way of figuring this one out? I tried increasing the verbosity of the logs but it did not really provide me with further information.
I guess you have configured Dovecot --with-gc? I guess it's possible this is a bug, but it could just as well be a false alarm. In general I don't recommend/support --with-gc option (and I should probably just remove it altogether). The easiest and the most usable way of finding memory leaks is to run with valgrind (which must be done without-gc):
service imap { executable = /usr/bin/valgrind -q --show-reachable=yes --leak-check=full /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap }
I'm not aware of any memory leaks right now.